Papers

@article{becerra-mosquera_arousa_2024,

title = {The Arousa Island bridge. Complete refurbishment and 10 years analysis description},

author = {José Antonio Becerra-Mosquera and Diego Carro-López and Manuel F. Herrador-Barrios},

url = {https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/suco.202200377},

doi = {10.1002/suco.202200377},

issn = {1751-7648},

year  = {2024},

date = {2024-01-01},

urldate = {2024-01-01},

journal = {Structural Concrete},

volume = {25},

number = {3},

pages = {1554–1570},

abstract = {The Isla de Arousa Bridge, 1980 m long, is the only road access to Isla de Arousa. Built in 1985, this single-cell box girder divided into 40 spans runs entirely over the sea. In response to corrosion damage, the local government decided to make an intervention with an ambitious repair project in 2009. The repair, carried out with three different techniques, aims to collect data for future repairs. In this research the results of rehabilitation and comparison of the evolution of the repairs are described, together with the data on the progression of corrosion and its effect on the life cycle. At the moment, with data from 10 years of protection, both hybrid and galvanic anodes installation have shown effectiveness. Bridge Health index analysis shows that after reparation, the bridge presented a very good condition, and even after 10 years the condition is still good, except for some damaged bearings.},

note = {_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/suco.202200377},

keywords = {bridge condition index, cathodic, corrosion, galvanic, hybrid, impress current, Reinforced concrete, repair},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}

@article{Vieito20181,

title = {Proposal and assessment of an efficient test configuration for studying lap splices in reinforced concrete},

author = {Ismael Vieito and Manuel F. Herrador-Barrios and Fernando Martínez-Abella and Fernando Varela-Puga},

url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85043476899&doi=10.1016%2fj.engstruct.2018.03.004&partnerID=40&md5=0500763048f9d7745284035e1f87003c},

doi = {10.1016/j.engstruct.2018.03.004},

issn = {01410296},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-01-01},

urldate = {2018-01-01},

journal = {Engineering Structures},

volume = {165},

pages = {1-10},

publisher = {Elsevier Ltd},

abstract = {Connecting reinforcement bars in their longitudinal direction is often needed in reinforced concrete structures. These connections must guarantee a correct stress transmission between bars without excessive cracking or inadmissible slips, and they are commonly executed by overlapping the reinforcement bars in a procedure known as a lap splice. In the absence of a standard or widely recognized test, three or four point bending tests are often used for the experimental study of lap-splices in tension. This test configuration shows inherent limitations, large costs and, usually, significant scatter. In this paper the authors have selected, fine-tuned and evaluated a specific test configuration for studying lap splices in reinforcement bars submitted to tensile forces. The proposed experiment was designed to be flexible and affordable in terms of cost, time consumption and required testing equipment. Consequently, it is possible to carry out multiple reruns of the experiments, minimizing the uncertainty and providing a good starting point for applying statistic methodologies. In contrast to the regular test configurations, the selected setup makes possible to directly obtain the bond-slip curves of the spliced bars. The experimental work carried out to assess the reliability, sensitivity and scatter of the proposed configuration shows promising results. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd},

note = {cited By 5},

keywords = {Bending tests; Concrete testing, Bond slips; Lap splice; Longitudinal direction; Reinforced concrete structures; Reinforcement bar; Stress transmission; Test configurations; Test setups; Test-points; Three-point bending test, experimental study; reinforced concrete; tensile stress; testing method, Reinforced concrete},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {article}

}